The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens,Used

The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens,Used

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A refreshing reminder of the hurdles newcomers to this country still face and how many defy the odds to overcome them, writes The New York Times, this inspiring work of narrative journalism recounts a year in the life at the International High School at Prospect Heights.Some walked across deserts and mountains to get here. One arrived after escaping in a suitcase. And others wont say how they got here.These are the new kids: new to America and all the routines and rituals of an American high school, from lonely first days to prom. They attend Brooklyns International High School at Prospect Heights, where all the students are recent immigrants learning English. Together, they come from more than fortyfive countries and speak more than twentyeight languages.An inspiring work of narrative journalism, The New Kids chronicles a year in the lives of teenage newcomers who are at once ordinary and extraordinary in their paths to the American Dream. Hausers unforgettable portraits include Jessica, kicked out of her fathers home just days after arriving from China; Ngawang, who spent twentyfour hours folded up in a suitcase to escape Tibet; Mohamed, a diamond miners son from Sierra Leone whose past is shrouded in mystery; and Chit Su, a Burmese refugee who is the only person to speak her language in the entire school.The students deal with enormous obstacles: traumas and wars in their native countries that haunt them, and pressures from their cultures to marry or to drop out and go to work. They arent just jostling for their places in the high school pecking orderthey are carving out new lives for themselves in America.

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